bibliography 5: Canadian History of Business

Reading List with Annotation:

This bibliography lists works that serve to introduce Business History in Canada. It is not comprehensive, but will be expanded, and have links added, on an ongoing basis. Additional resources can be found by searching under such related subject headings as: Accounting History; Advertising History; Economic History; Commerce History; Corporations; Industries, etc. Entries marked by asterisk * might serve as primary sources.

1) Canadian Business History

a) Books:

i) General Survey/Representative Essay Collections

Atkinson, Michael M., and William Donald Cloeman. The state, business, and industrial change in Canada, Vol. 13 State and Economic Life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. [Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: http://bit.ly/6eh80Z].

Austin, Barbara J. Capitalizing knowledge: essays on the history of business education in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Electronic Resources.

Porter, Glenn, and Robert D. Cuff, eds.Enterprise and national development: essays in Canadian business and economic history. Toronto: Hakkert, 1973. [Essays first appeared in a special issue of Business historyreview 47, no. 2 (summer, 1973)].

Shortt, Adam. [“father of Canadian business history”] Canada and its Provinces. 23 vols. (1913-1917)[vol.s 9 & 10 deal with post-Confederation industrial development, specific sections on business, on banking. In addition Shortt edited a 2 volume set of documents on currency, exchange and finance during French regime (1926)].

Taylor, Graham D. A concise history of business in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994. [Description: http://bit.ly/4Bk6dd].

Traves, Tom, ed. Essays in Canadian business history. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984.

Craven, Paul. “An impartial umpire” : industrial relations and the Canadian state 1900-1911, Vol. 3, The state and economic life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. [Description: http://www.jstor.org/pss/1869542].

______, ed. Labouring lives: work and workers in nineteenth century Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Ontario Historical Studies Series, 1995.

Creighton, Donald. The empire of the St. Lawrence. Toronto, Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1956.

Forbes, Elizabeth. With enthusiasm and faith: history of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, la Fédération canadienne des clubs de femmes de carrières libérales et commerciales, 1930-1972. Ottawa: Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, 1974.

______. The fur trade in Canada: an introduction to Canadian economic history. [1930] Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. [Electronic Resources; see also 1975 ed. “reprinting of the revised edition of 1956, with a revised foreword from the 1962 edition].

______. The cod fisheries: the history of an international economy. [1940] Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1954.

______. The bias of communication. [1951] Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Lamontagne, Maurice. Business cycles in Canada: the postwar experience and policy directions, 1917-1983. Toronto: Published for the Canadian Institute for Economic Policy by J. Lorimer & Co., 1984.

Lower. A.R.M. The North American Assault on the Canadian Forest: A History of the Lumber Trade between Canada and the United States. Toronto, 1936.

*Henry John McPhillips. McPhillips’ alphabetical and business directory of the Districtof Saskatchewan, N.W.T. : together with brief historical sketches of Prince Albert, Battleford and other settlements in the District, 1888. Qu’Appelle, N.W.T.: Printed at “The Progress” Book and Job Office, 1888.

Mellett, Edward Bruce. From stopwatch to strategy: a history of the first twenty-fiveyears of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants. Toronto: Canadian Association of Management Consultants, 1988.

Mills, Rachel Joanne. Gender, ethnicity, and religion in the context of entrepreneurship: the Loewen lumber businessmen of Steinbach, Manitoba, 1877-1985. Ph.D. Diss., Winnipeg: University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg, 2003.

Monod, David L. Store wars: shopkeepers and the culture of mass marketing, 1890-1939. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Wei Djao. Being Chinese: voices from the diaspora. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. [Description: QEII]

Young, Brian J. In its corporate capacity: the Seminary of Montreal as a business institution, 1816-1876. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1986.

b) Articles:

Anastakis, Dimitry. “Building a ‘New Nova Scotia’: State Intervention, the Auto Industry, and the Case of Volvo in Halifax, 1963-1968.” Acadiensis (Autumn, 2004).

______. “From Independence to Integration: The Corporate Evolution of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, 1904-2004.” Business History Review 78, no. 2 (2004): 214-253.

Armstrong, Frederick H. [Associate professor of history, University of Western Ontario, London ON] “Approaches to Business History in Canada: The Historian’s Approach.” Proceedings of the Fourteenth 4nnual Meeting of the Business History Conference(London, ON: University of Western Ontario, 1967): 16-33.

Craven, Paul. “The law of master and servant in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario.” In Essays in the History of Canadian Law I, ed. D.H. Flaherty. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. [topic: Business and Law; paternalism]

Craven, Paul, and T.D. Traves. “Dimensions of paternalism: discipline and culture in Canadian railway operations in the 1850s,” in On The Job, ed. Craig Heron and Robert Storey. 47-74. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1986. [topic: Managerial strategy, paternalism]

Girard, Philip. “Taking Litigation Seriously: The Market Wharf Controversy at Halifax, 1785-1820.” In Essays in the History of Canadian Law: In honour of R.C.B. Risk,ed. G. Baline Baker and Phillips. 213-240. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1999. [topic: Business and Law; infrastructure ownership/access]

McDowall, Duncan. “Business History as Public History: One of Canada’s Infant Industries.” Journal of Canadian Studies (Fall 1985).

Nelles, H.V. “Commerce in a Cold Climate: Bliss on Canadian Business History.” Review of Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business, by Michael Bliss. The Business History Review 62, no. 2 (Summer, 1988): 310-316.

Newell, Diane. “The Rationality of Mechanization in the Pacific Salmon Canning Industry before the Second World War.” Business History Review 62, no. 4 (1988): 626-655.